Improvement in measuring attachments for packaged fabrics



BMORGAN. l .MEASURING ATTACHMENT FOR'PACKAGED FABRICS. 110.111,235. Patented Ja11.`24. 1871.

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EDWARD MORGAN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS OF HIS RIGHT TO J. F.. MCKEE, OF FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS, AND

CHARLES FAIR, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. p

Leiters ment No. 111,235, ama 'January 24,' 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN MIEASURING ATTACHMENTS FOR PACKAGED FABRICS.

The Schedule referred tovln these Letters Patent and making of the nml.

Bc it known that 1I, EDWARD' MORGAN, of Washington, inthe. county of Washington and District of Colunibia, lxaveinv'ented an Improved Measuring At- 'tachment forlaekaged Fabrics; and I do hereby den clare that the following is a suiiciently full, clear, and exact description of the same vto enable others to use it, referring to. the drawing, in Which- Figure 1 represents my measuring attachment as applied for use, and i Figure2 represents a section of the same.

.My invention has for its object, to furnish a ready means Ifor measuring rolled fabrics and avoiding the use of the yard-st-ick, which is often attendedwith great trouble and annoyance; and

'It consists in applying to rolled goods, suon as car pets, oil-cloths, mattings, Woolen and cotton fabrics,

ribbons, &c.,j strips of paper-say one -inch (more or The letter B, iig. 1, represents the measuring at-V tachm'ent applied to the same.

Someof the advantages of my invention are: First, the yard-stick is dispensedi'with. Second, the salesman can at a glance ascertain th number of yards in a piece of goods, saving'the trouble-V and damage by unrolling and re-rolling, as by the common practice, when it may be necessary to take account-of stock, 85o, j I

Third, thepaper aords a convenient means for applyiug a trade-mark, if desired.

Fourth, a considerable number of the strips can be printed together 'and afterward ont, thus rendering ,it

a very cheap devicel Y Haring now described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure-by Letters Patent-4 l In combination `with a rolled or folded fabric,'a

, measuring-strip, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of these witnesses.

' EDWARD MORGAN.

Witnesses DANL. MCLAUGIILIN, SAML. O. MILLS. 

